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Leo's Triplet (M65, M66 and NGC 3628) in LRGB


eshy76

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Hi everyone!

Galaxy season is fun even for a small refractor! (Although some new equipment may have been delivered recently...with no discernible effect on the weather...)

Leo's Triplet is a photogenic grouping. Apart from the three main actors, I didn't expect to see a very faint pair of what looks like interacting galaxies in the far left of the image, IC 2785 and IC 2786, which are 545-555 million light years away from us!

In terms of the triplet, I think I like NGC 3628 the best visually. It is 35 million light years away and another cool fact is that its stars are apparently rotating in the opposite direction to its gas!

3.6 hours of LRGB integration time shot over two nights.

Full details here

Thanks for looking!

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